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Books and Authors

JESSE LYNCH WILLIAMS, former President of the Authors' League of America, who was one of the judges in the Harper $2,000 prize novel competition, when asked to give his reasons for voting for Anne Parrish's novel, replied, in part:

September 13, 1925

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